She was questioned during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" about an editorial in a Massachusetts newspaper, "Warren must resolve debate on heritage," which said a DNA test would "permanently resolve the issue."

“Look, I do know. I know who I am. And never used it for anything. Never got any benefit from it anywhere," Warren said.

"But what I did a couple of weeks ago is I went to talk to the leaders of the native tribes across the country,” she added.

The Washington Post fact checker in 2016 wrote that there is "no official documentation" of Warren’s claim to Native American ancestry based on family stories she heard growing up, advising its readers "to look into it on their own and decide whether Trump’s attacks over Warren’s background have merit.”